Google and China

By jessang27

  • Google China founded

  • Period: to

    Google in China

    This is the timespan of Google's presence in China.

  • Google.cn launched

  • Google China HQ moved to Tsinghua University

  • Youtube blcoked in China

  • Attacks from China

    The attacks were discovered by Google to infiltrate human rights activists' Gmail accounts, and also aimed at 20 other big companies in different areas.

  • All searches routed to Google.com.hk

    In response to the attacks, Google shutdown Google.cn and routed all the searches to Google.com.hk, thus skipping the Great Firewall of China.

  • All searches via Google are banned

    Including searches via other services from Google.

  • Ban lifted.

  • Search routing stopped.

    Google placed a link on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk. They did this because in hopes of renewing their ISP in China, which indirectly showed Google wanting to come back to China sometime later.

  • Google's ISP renewed

  • Inaccessbility of Gmail in China

  • Gmail traffic in China went up

  • China denies Gmail blocking

    Jiang Yu, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, denies the accusations of Gmail being inaccessible as a Chinese government action.
    When Gmail was first blocked, Google reported that their servers are fine.